Kiwi Crate Review & Coupon – Gone Fishing!

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This month’s Kiwi Crate let us build our own, gravity-powered version of a popular mechanical children’s game. Kiwi Crate is a kids’ craft and activity subscription that comes with everything you need to complete a great project or two, usually a pair of crafts that can be used as toys or playtime props. This box is geared for ages 5-8, and the projects are always age-appropriate, though some require more parental assistance than others.

Kiwi Crate is the most popular craft and activity subscription box for kids!

Everything in the Kiwi Crate! This month’s theme is Gone Fishing! Kiwi Crate includes all necessary supplies for the featured activities, plus explore! magazine.

DEAL: Use this link to save 30% on your first box of Kiwi Crate!(or KiwiCo family subscriptions Tinker CrateKoala Crate, and Doodle Crate ).

You really need very little from home to do the crafts. Usually, you only need a pair of scissors (which is sent to you with a new subscription!), but often the pieces are pre-cut, scored, or otherwise prepared for you already. The crate includes self-adhesive items or glue/glue dots if needed for the crafts.

An issue of explore! magazine is included in every Crate. It is full of fun content that brings the project to life.

explore! has lots of facts, blurbs, and information relating the topic of the Crate to real life scenarios and applications. This month’s magazine had some fun information on fishing and sea creatures.

There is always a comic featuring Steve the Kiwi and his pals, plus lots of historical and scientific information relating to the current theme.

explore! teaches kids some of the science at work behind the project. It usually includes extension activities and some simple observational experiments to learn more about the principles underlying the project.

explore! has read, draw, learn, explore, eat, and make designated activities. Each expands on the theme of the box, whether through factoids, drawing activities, or recipes.

Our kids love to go through everything in the booklet first before starting the main project.

There is really a lot to look at and read, and it really extends your young one’s engagement with the Crate.

For parents, the activities are also a great way to keep your child entertained while you peruse the contents of the box and take a peek at the instructions for the crafts (it only takes a peek – they are always very clear and simple)!

Every Kiwi Crate comes with a unique Steve sticker (like your merit badge for completing the box).

The second booklet that comes in every crate is the actual instruction booklet for the crafts, and often it includes additional activities beyond the extension projects included in explore!  It includes an inventory of all the supplies included in the Crate.

Step-by-step instructions guide you through the project. They are clearly written and very easy to follow, pointing out potential pitfalls so you don’t go astray.

The crate included a second track for the game. Swapping in this track makes the fish rise only once per rotation of the board instead of three times.

This crate also included a spray art project – there is a lot to do in each Kiwi Crate!

We started by drawing designs or shading a piece of special paper that’s much like coffee filter paper.

With a spritz of water from the bottle provided, the capillary action of the paper causes the marker to spread out and blend together.

After the paper dried, we sandwiched it inside black card stock with ocean shapes cut from it.  The card stock has two sides, each with a different design.

A stand was included to stand the picture upright. The colored paper can be swapped out however often you like.

The fishing game was pretty easy to construct.  We had to tie a couple knots, but the main body fit together without needing adhesive.

Most of the assembly could be performed by our six-year-old by himself – I helped with the knots.

The spray bottle we used for the art project provided a weight that spun the game.

The completed game, complete with two fishing poles.

It took a little experimentation to get the weight of the bottle just right so the wheel spun at a manageable speed.

I was surprised that this worked so well – I thought the bottle would drag the entire game off the table. We only had one such mishap among several trials, and the foam on the base of the pond gripped the table very well.

Kiwi Crate is always lots of fun for our kids to make, and they enjoy playing with the finished products after they’ve built them.  Boxes in the KiwiCo family make superb gifts and family activities, blending creative fun with educational content.

Visit Kiwi Crate to subscribe or to find out more about this fantastic kids’ craft subscription box!

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